Kolkata, May 23: A day after Samajwadi Party dubbed as “imaginary” that it had expressed readiness to join the UPA government in case it dumps Trinamool Congress, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said he had offered “issue based support provided it drops TC from the alliance.”
Asked at a press conference if reports that he had offered his party’s support to UPA-II on condition that it drop Trinanmool Congress were true, he said, “They were indeed true. But our support will be issue-based.”
Pointing out that the present UPA government’s policies were against common people, he, however, said, “We have opposed their anti-people policies in the Lok Sabha. Our support to them will be based on consensus over issues like national security, price rise and plight of farmers.
–Agencies